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10-05-2008, 07:28 PM
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10-05-2008, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Contessa_Sharra  | Anyone with a faulty heart valve can drop dead of a heart attack. It's all over the place. Let's outlaw faulty heart valves. 
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10-05-2008, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Gunny Anyone with a faulty heart valve can drop dead of a heart attack. It's all over the place. Let's outlaw faulty heart valves. | Why don't we just outlaw crime? That way there wouldn't be any crime because you know, there would be laws against it.
Crime that is.
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10-05-2008, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Mad Scientist Why don't we just outlaw crime? That way there wouldn't be any crime because you know, there would be laws against it.
Crime that is. | Hey ... I think you're onto something here ..... 
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10-05-2008, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Mad Scientist Why don't we just outlaw crime? That way there wouldn't be any crime because you know, there would be laws against it.
Crime that is. | excellent idea! let's start with guns.....
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10-05-2008, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by del excellent idea! let's start with guns..... | Start WHAT with guns? Shooting? or confiscating them?
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10-06-2008, 07:40 AM
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10-06-2008, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Contessa_Sharra | Let me get this straight ... these people want everyone to just stay at home clicking the same links over and over again .... just so they can avoid crime in other places ... which they won't go to because they are too busy clicking on the links over and over again?
I would rather live, if I get hurt by crime ... oh well .... happened before and I doubt it will never happen again no matter what I do .... unless I sit here the rest of my life and don't go anywhere, but I got a small life to live still so not going to happen. Really, people are just losing perspective, as they say 'shit happens'.
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10-06-2008, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by editec The fear of crime (for most of us) is a hell of lot more damaging to us personally than crime itself. | which takes us back to a previous thread about someone getting shot.
How much "no fear" is a good thing, and when does it cross the line into foolishness?
As for guns, we all know that the profit margins of weapons manufacturers are more important than real humans.
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Originally Posted by Contessa_Sharra which takes us back to a previous thread about someone getting shot.
How much "no fear" is a good thing, and when does it cross the line into foolishness?
As for guns, we all know that the profit margins of weapons manufacturers are more important than real humans. | *sigh*, ok... Foolish is a nation without recourse even against its own government.
We Just handed over almost every form of control that can exist in favor of the people in the last 7 yrs.
You wanna talk Fear?? That was already shear, unabashed and unaccounted for lunacy that many respected analysts found suspect and now you just want us to let loose of the little branch at the edga the cliff we're left clinging to?  |
10-07-2008, 01:32 AM
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Rep Power: 5 | | | Simple fact, the fear of crime is ruining our country and our children more than actual crime has ever done.
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